FRIDAY NI ROCKS SHOW - Review of the First Six Years

Thursday, 25 August 2016 04:51 | Written by NI ROCKS | | |

This weekend marks the 6th anniversary of the first Friday NI Rocks Show being broadcast on Rock Radio NI on 27th August 2010. The 297th Show has just been uploaded to the On Demand Player – we’ve missed a few uploads over the years, mainly due to problems with my laptop! (The NI Rocks A-Z Show started a few months earlier and is currently on Show number 324). As I’m a bit of a nerd when it comes to stats, I thought it was worth looking back over the first 6 years of the Friday NI Rocks Show. We’ve broadcast 50 interviews (44 in the last three years) and included almost 4,000 tracks by around 650 different artists on the playlists.

On the Friday NI Rocks Show I have the flexibility to play whatever I want each week rather than following the A-Z approach, so it’s interesting to look back at what I’ve been playing over the past few years. I always try to include new releases on the Show, which probably explains why there are 650 different artists on the playlist. I’ve also focused on playing local bands and classic rock bands and that is evident in the list of artists who have been included on the Friday NI Rocks Show playlists 20 times or more. To be honest there are a few bands that I’m surprised not to see on the list, but here it is:

Sitting just under the 20 mark are bands such as Black Sabbath, Glyder, Halestorm, Inch High, Maverick, Orianthi, Shakra and The Burning Crows.

These figures relate to the number of times the artists have been included on a specific playlist for a Show. As each Show is repeated several times on the website during the week and some Shows have been repeated for a few weeks when no new uploads were done, the number of actual plays is much greater. In addition each Show is available via the On Demand Player or as a podcast.